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iTunes U
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iTunes U provides everything an instructor needs to bring the classroom together on iPad—build lessons with apps and your own materials, collect and grade assignments from students, start class discussions or talk with students one-on-one to answer questions and provide feedback.

iTunes U also allows anyone with an iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch to learn from a large collection of free education content via public courses from leading schools, universities, museums, and cultural institutions.

For Instructors:• Plan lessons, grade assignments, and stay connected—right from your iPad• Add your own teaching materials—including worksheets, web links, photos, and videos from a variety of document providers• Engage every learner using apps, books, videos, podcasts and more from iTunes, App Store, and iBooks• Add instructions or comments to PDFs and photos with built-in annotation tools• See when students have viewed or completed assignments and remind students of due assignments• Grade student work and track student progress in the grade book • Use the single-student view for individual attention at parent-teacher conferences• Answer questions or provide video feedback in 1:1 chats or start class debates using group discussions• Keep students prepared and in the loop with notifications• Institutions using Apple School Manager and Managed Apple IDs can import rosters to streamline course creation• Teachers affiliated with qualified institutions can publish courses to the iTunes U catalog to make them available to anyone for free on iOS devices

For Students:• View assignments and updates in one place, and check off assignments you’ve completed• Submit your work in private courses from any Apple creativity app, many third-party apps, or as annotated PDFs and photos• Open audio or video files directly in other apps• Ask instructors questions or have them review your work with 1:1 messages• Start or join group discussions with your class• View your grades and instructor feedback on all past assignments

Browse a rich catalog of free education content:• Choose from a variety of free lectures, videos, books, and other resources on a wide range of subjects from leading educational and cultural institutions around the world• Share your favorite courses with friends using Twitter, Facebook, Mail, and Messages• iTunes U includes materials from Stanford, MIT, Yale, La Trobe University, University of Tokyo, Smithsonian Libraries, National Theatre, and many more

What's New

Version History

3.6

Oct 17, 2017

• iTunes U collections were migrated to Apple Podcasts and no longer appear in the iTunes U app. You can now view iTunes U collections in the Podcasts section of iTunes on Mac or PC, or in the Podcasts app on iOS devices or Apple TV. • Performance improvements for accounts with a large number of courses

3.5

Mar 28, 2017

• Mark up photos with instructions or comments using built-in annotation tools• Quickly send video messages and feedback in 1:1 chats between teachers and students• Open audio or video files directly in other apps

3.4

Sep 13, 2016

• Share Swift Playground files between teachers and students• Open iTunes U directly to recently viewed courses using 3D Touch from the home screen on iPhone

3.2

• iTunes U now supports Managed Apple IDs and has been optimized for Shared iPad• Collections, courses and your content are now searchable from Spotlight Search• Ability to search assignments anywhere within iTunes U and via Spotlight Search• Improved experience in countries where restrictions are enabled by default• Improved offline syncing of grades and private discussions• Minor performance and stability improvements

3.1

Oct 22, 2015

• Posts can now include images• Grade book displays student’s average grade within a course• Grade book displays minimum, maximum and mean grades for an assignment • iTunes U is now designed to take advantage of the larger canvas of iPad Pro• Includes minor stability and performance improvements

3.0.1

Sep 16, 2015

This update includes minor stability and performance improvements.

3.0

Jun 25, 2015

This update includes the following features:• Students can hand in their homework assignments• Annotate PDF assignments directly in iTunes U• Instructors can grade and track student progress with an integrated grade book• Private one-on-one conversations between students and instructors • Include multiple attachments per assignment

2.1.1

Jan 27, 2015

This update includes minor stability and performance improvements.

2.1

2.0

Jul 8, 2014

Introducing the new iTunes U

Let the discussion begin• The new iTunes U makes it simple for students participating in private courses to pose questions on the course or any post or assignment• Other students in the class can jump into the discussion and ask more questions or provide answers• Teachers and students can keep up with the conversation when they receive push notifications as the discussion progresses

Create courses on iPad• Teachers can now create and update their courses using the iTunes U app on their iPad—getting started is fast, simple, and completely free• Provide every student a course outline, write posts, distribute assignments, upload class materials, easily track participating students, and much more• Take advantage of the built in camera on iPad to easily capture photos or videos and upload them for course assignments• Create materials using Pages, Numbers, and Keynote—or other apps from the App Store—and add them to your course by using "Open in iTunes U" from within each app• Teachers affiliated with qualified institutions have the option to publish their courses to the iTunes U Catalog—making them available to everyone for free

1.4.1

Dec 12, 2013

This version of iTunes U resolves an issue where the playback speed button may not work as expected.

1.4

Nov 14, 2013

This version of iTunes U has been updated for iOS 7 with an all-new look and feel.

1.3.1

Jun 25, 2013

This update to iTunes U:

• Checks for course updates when you pull to refresh the notepad• Resolves an issue that may prevent courses from updating• Fixes a problem where iTunes U may unexpectedly quit when opening the Catalog repeatedly• Improves support for Arabic, French, German, Greek, Italian, Russian, and Spanish

1.3

Sep 19, 2012

iTunes U 1.3 adds support for iOS 6. This version also provides:

• A new single day view to see all of your posts and assignments due on a particular day.• Addresses an issue which prevented Closed Captioning from appearing when available.

1.2

Jul 25, 2012

iTunes U 1.2 now makes it easy to take notes while watching or listening to a lecture. This update also adds the ability to search within posts, assignments, notes, and materials — from any of your subscribed courses — using the improved Search feature in iTunes U. It is also now simple to share your favorite courses with friends using Twitter, Mail, and Messages.

1.1.1

Apr 30, 2012

iTunes U 1.1.1 addresses an issue which may cause it to unexpectedly quit when launched from another app.

1.1

Mar 7, 2012

iTunes U 1.1 is now designed for the spectacular Retina display on the all new iPad. This version also includes a number of performance improvements.

1.0

Jan 18, 2012

Oct 17, 2017

Version 3.6

• iTunes U collections were migrated to Apple Podcasts and no longer appear in the iTunes U app. You can now view iTunes U collections in the Podcasts section of iTunes on Mac or PC, or in the Podcasts app on iOS devices or Apple TV. • Performance improvements for accounts with a large number of courses

Ratings and Reviews

3.3 out of 5

857 Ratings

857 Ratings

Great content you cannot delete

Jun 26, 2017

sjhuz01

Just installed on a new device & it loaded courses I took 5 years ago. I have dozens of "assignments" and notifications for courses from 2012! That was fine except that due to bad layout it seems like you can't delete anything, and even if I wanted to keep the old courses I think I'd have to manually click through dozens of assignments to get rid of them.

Fun fact: when you view the library in "Shelf" layout (iOS 10.3, iPad4) the "Edit" button & menus are obscured behind the top navigation bar, so it seems like there's no way to delete anything! The grid view works fine. Pls change scroll view insets.

Content is generally good, and it's cool that this is becoming more of a teacher's tool than a student's tool. Will go look for new stuff now...

Great content you cannot delete

Jun 26, 2017

sjhuz01

Just installed on a new device & it loaded courses I took 5 years ago. I have dozens of "assignments" and notifications for courses from 2012! That was fine except that due to bad layout it seems like you can't delete anything, and even if I wanted to keep the old courses I think I'd have to manually click through dozens of assignments to get rid of them.

Fun fact: when you view the library in "Shelf" layout (iOS 10.3, iPad4) the "Edit" button & menus are obscured behind the top navigation bar, so it seems like there's no way to delete anything! The grid view works fine. Pls change scroll view insets.

Content is generally good, and it's cool that this is becoming more of a teacher's tool than a student's tool. Will go look for new stuff now...

Keeps Getting Better!

Mar 31, 2017

andrwmac

The more recent updates have turned iTunes U into one of the best teaching tools I've seen! One thing though that still needs some work is the built-in PDF annotation tools. If Apple would match them to the built-in iOS 10 mark up annotation tools it would be almost perfect! This would add the ability of shape recognition, the loupe, and signature annotations. Students could get arrows, perfect boxes, comment bubbles, stars, etc. to help make their assignments even nicer before handing them in. Please Apple, add the iOS 10 Mark Up annotations to the iTunes U built-in annotation tool.

Keeps Getting Better!

Mar 31, 2017

andrwmac

The more recent updates have turned iTunes U into one of the best teaching tools I've seen! One thing though that still needs some work is the built-in PDF annotation tools. If Apple would match them to the built-in iOS 10 mark up annotation tools it would be almost perfect! This would add the ability of shape recognition, the loupe, and signature annotations. Students could get arrows, perfect boxes, comment bubbles, stars, etc. to help make their assignments even nicer before handing them in. Please Apple, add the iOS 10 Mark Up annotations to the iTunes U built-in annotation tool.

Apple is a scandalous company

Feb 5, 2018

33anonymous

My purchase history has been deleted by apple to cover up the fact that they took my money for an app they sold me then later took back from me. This purchase was stored in my iCloud account on my payed iCloud Drive. Yet they can go in and Hilary Clinton my data and records to suit their deniability when they retake what they sold . Or do I not actually own my data stored in there. And why is there a reply limit in this community? Why am I suddenly unauthorized to post on a thread I initiated? Is apple attempting to censor people from implicating them in fraud? Why does apple irresponsibility misuse terms such as “store” and “purchase”? Could someone other than one of apples brown nosing minions answer these questions?

Apple is a scandalous company

Feb 5, 2018

33anonymous

My purchase history has been deleted by apple to cover up the fact that they took my money for an app they sold me then later took back from me. This purchase was stored in my iCloud account on my payed iCloud Drive. Yet they can go in and Hilary Clinton my data and records to suit their deniability when they retake what they sold . Or do I not actually own my data stored in there. And why is there a reply limit in this community? Why am I suddenly unauthorized to post on a thread I initiated? Is apple attempting to censor people from implicating them in fraud? Why does apple irresponsibility misuse terms such as “store” and “purchase”? Could someone other than one of apples brown nosing minions answer these questions?